Category: Life Issues

Grateful-Just Be

You cannot be grateful and bitter. You cannot be grateful and unhappy. You cannot be grateful and without hope. You cannot be grateful and unloving. So just be grateful.

— Unknown —

You cannot be grateful and bitter. You cannot be grateful and unhappy. You cannot be grateful and without hope. You cannot be grateful and unloving. So just be grateful…

Blessed

Blessed are those that can give without remembering and receive without forgetting.

— Unknown —

Blessed are those that can give without remembering and receive without forgetting…

Roof Leaks

Thankful...for each new morning with its light, for rest and shelter of the night, for health and food, for love and friends, for everything Thy goodness sends.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson —

Thankful…for each new morning with its light, for rest and shelter of the night, for health and food, for love and friends, for everything Thy goodness sends.

Look for Good

Can you see the holiness in those things you take for granted--a paved road or a washing machine? If you concentrate on finding what is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul.

— Rabbi Harold Kushner —

Can you see the holiness in those things you take for granted–a paved road or a washing machine? If you concentrate on finding what is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul.

Ordinary Blessings

Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.

— William Arthur Ward —

Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.

Gratitude or Garbage

The most beautiful people are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known loss and have found their way out of the depths. Beautiful people do not just happen.

— Dr. Kubler-Ross —

The most beautiful people are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known loss and have found their way out of the depths. Beautiful people do not just happen.

Happy Gratefulness

In daily life we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy.

— Brother David Steindl-Rast —

In daily life we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy.

Grateful Abundance

When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears.

— Tony Robbins —

When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears.

Rejoice

He is a wise man who does not grieve for things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

— Epictetus —

Epictetus said it well in this quote. Jesus says it even better in Luke 16:10, “Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much”  (NIV) …if you want to expand what you have you must show God gratitude and be responsible with the little things which prepares you for the greater responsibilities…

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